Wasn't Trang-Oul's ultimate purpose to create a constant war between the Angels and Demons, with no real side claiming victory? Doesn't it not throw off the balance there if all of the seven evils are gone? I suppose the expansions leave room for this, but, still, question #1 is pretty huge. lol.

I liked Diablo III. Borderline loved it. In fact, I may love it after Nightmare, Hell and Inferno. But, I still have some lore questions. There are some spoilers here if you haven't played through at least normal, so, please stop reading if you have not completed the game yet.

1) How the hell did Mephisto and Diablo get trapped inside the Black Soulstone? And Andariel and Duriel? In fact, how did any of them aside from Belial and Azmodan? It doesn't make sense. Mephisto and Diablo were specifically put into their Soulstones, then destroyed on the Hellforge. Baal's never was, or at least, was never said to be to my knowledge, but, still, how did he get in the Black Soulstone? I must have missed something.

2) How can the angels ally with the Nephalem at the end? It makes it seem like the angels are buddies with them, despite the fact that the Angels are just as bad as the demons towards Sanctuary. They wanted to absolutely obliterate the entire existence of Sanctuary!

NeciFiX you're one lucky duck. What I would give for one of those accounts...

I read about a big beta wave and was like "oh neat. Another time that I don't get in." I logged into my main account and I nearly had a nerd freakout but people were asleep. Then I saw I had a couple more in a few of my other accounts and was baffled... not trying to brag, my build is really strong and definitely much higher than what D3 would need, but, I think one of my accounts that got in was an interesting Dell PC with a built in GPU and an AMD processor, so, it was certainly a precarious build. I should try loading D3 on it and see how it plays.

Yes, I actually got 2-3 beta invites since I have multiple accounts. Unsure as to what to do with the extras right now, but, the beta has been epic so far. Will probably give them to my close friends who I played Diablo II a lot with who didn't get lucky like I did.

The beta servers have been down a lot, or lagging. They are really struggling with the increased load.

I just checked today and two of my accounts have been flagged for beta access. One of them I have forgotten the email/pass combo and the other my friend used to sign me up for, so, I have no idea if he got one as well. Are a lot of people in at this point?

Honestly, how big do you estimate this next wave of beta testes (lololol) will be when the beta patch launches within a few days? Do you think it will finally be the size that we've been looking for, outside of a few hundred invites we've seen from the opt-in and a few hundred more from the D3 Facebook beta key sweepstakes and the few handed out by fansites?

If in the internal alpha, with the current system, things were frustrating... then this system should be given a go. I like the idea, I am a tad unsure of it. But, I do think it will help retain a Diablo-esque feel and a grand degree of randomness. Know the rarity of rolling a 20/20/10 Anni in D2? It'd be sort of like this, but, with a lvl 7 rune. I myself have found a 20/20/10 Anni... I feel my luck stirring!

I'm going to have to switch my position of "yay" for this to "nay". But, I'm still not a full on hater, but, I can understand the cons more clearly now. I'm 60/40 yay vs nay respectively for the new changes. Maybe 70/30.

This is very cool. I remember on more than on occasion that I was waiting and waiting and waiting to find a third chipped sapphire so I could make it into a flawed and socket it but I just get impatient and used the chipped. Five minutes later I find the third chipped I wanted, but, now it's too late.